From: Powell, Janet L <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed Sep 12 11:27:47 2001
Subject: FW: Tribute to America_From Canada
Interesting commentary by a Canadian Television Commentator-
>A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
>
>
>America: The Good Neighbor.
>Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a
remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a
Canadian
television >commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant
remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
>
>"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the
most
generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.
>
>Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted
out
of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars
and
forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today
paying
even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
>
>When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans
who
propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the
streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
>
>When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that
hurries
in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by
tornadoes. Nobody helped.
>
>The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars!
Into
discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing
about
the decadent, warmongering Americans.
>
>I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the
erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any
other
country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the
Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them?
Why
do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes?
>
>Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman
on the
moon? You talk about Japanese technology, and you get radios. You talk
about
German technology, and you get automobiles.
>
>You talk about American technology, and you find men on the moon -!
Not
once, but several times -and safely home again.
>
>You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the
store
window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not
pursued
and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless
they
are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa
at
home to spend here.
>
>When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down
through
age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania
Railroad
and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose.
Both
are still broke.
>
>I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of
other
people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else
raced to
the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even
during
the San Francisco earthquake.
>
>Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned
tired
of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing
with
their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their
nose at
the lands that are
>gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of
those."
>
>Stand proud, America!
>
>This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the
United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that
the
rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything
and
never even get a thank you for the things we do.
>
>I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you
can
and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends
until
this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single
American
that has read this.
>
>I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
>
>
>
Janet Powell
The Boeing Company-Anaheim
Property Accountability & Control
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